Abstract
This thesis aims to reveal how Songhyunok’s Hamlet: Son of a Mother achieves the metaphoric suggestiveness. Songhyunok’s Hamlet utilizes metaphors to overcome realistic representation by means of metaphoric gestures and metaphoric scenography. Metaphors say some things and mean some other things. This roundabout way of telling refrains from literal meaning, therefore providing significant meanings that are beyond the exact meaning. Thus it induces the audience to rethink of the situation, overcoming the limits of realistic representation. Metaphoric gestures in Song’s Hamlet are used in several ways. Sometimes they provide meanings that are not delivered by language, or they are culture-specific so that they embody the ontological beliefs inherent in the Korean culture. Furthermore, metaphoric gestures function as poetic metaphors. Metaphoric scenography is a means for meeting the audience in a new way. By means of these metaphoric modes the work can successfully intensify the existing meanings, make comments on the contemporary world, and engage the audience in an unconventional way. In these ways, this performance overcomes the limits of realistic representation by utilizing many forms of metaphor.
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